Dig Deep and Listen - A Glimpse of Artward Bound

3/12/2019

Holderness School's Artward Bound program gives tenth graders an opportunity to dig deep and listen to their creative voices. This year artists-in-residence introduced students to pewter casting, improv, songwriting, dancing, drumming, graphic design, painting, and ceramics. While we could tell you all about their amazing creations, their final pieces do a much better job showing the students' passion, effort, and amazing creativity! Take a look through this mash-up to view just some of the projects the tenth graders finished in the first week.

List of 3 news stories.

Albert Bierstadt, the German-American painter renowned for his landscapes of the American West, came to the White Mountains to capture its simple yet overwhelming beauty. What came to life through nearly a decade’s worth of work was The Emerald Pool, a massive oil-on-canvas monument to the natural majesty of a hidden swimming hole along the Peabody River in the Pinkham Notch. Recounting The Emerald Pool, Bierstadt said, “I never had so difficult a picture to paint, as this White Mountain subject the Emerald Pool; my artist friends think it my best picture and so do I.”

At Holderness we deliberately build community through the people we bring in and programs we support. Today I want to share one story about people who showed us what it means to be a mission-centered community and talk about one unique program that is hitting a milestone.

Kicking off its 141st year, Holderness School welcomed new students to campus on September 5th. Under blue skies and surrounded by the cheers of joyful Senior Leaders, 114 new students eagerly joined the Holderness School community. The day was filled with smiles as new students and families unpacked their cars and turned dorm rooms into a home away from home.